The Life of the Great Alex Weyer

This is the story of the life, successes and failures, of the Great Alex Weyer.

Alex Weyer was a magician during the Golden Age of Magic (ca. 1875–1948). He started off with a strongman act and ended up traveling the world with his magic show.

Born as Jean Pierre Decker in Mondercange in the southwest of Luxembourg, he became a close friend of the most famous escape artist and magician of all time, Harry Houdini.

I researched his story over the past five years, going through national archives, magic documents, calling innocent people, who might have been relatives, and looking for his grave in Cairo.

The book will be published in German and English (maybe later in French) to reach out to the wider magic history community and everyone interested in the early 19th century. It is being professionally edited, translated and printed.

For every Luxemburg(er), this is a valuable piece of local history; about an unknown magician, who knew all the big names of the Golden Age of Magic.

À quoi servira la collecte

You should fund this project because the story needs to be read! This is the story of a struggling magician, who could do nothing but persist. Magic was his life and his love.

The funds will go to:

Research and writing = 0

Editing = 500

Translation = 500

Layout = 250

Printing (400 ex.) = 1000

TOTAL: 2.250,-

Choisissez votre contrepartie

Pour 10 €

For 10,- EUR, I send you a PDF version of the book

Contributeur : 1

Pour 20 €

For 20,- EUR, I send you the book

Contributeurs : 7

Pour 40 €

For 40,- EUR, I send you the book with a dedication

Contributeur : 1

Pour 100 €

For 100,- EUR, I send you the book with a dedication and with a postcard of one of Weyer's playbills

Contributeurs : 7

Disponibilité : 3/10

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Pour 500 €

For 500,- EUR, I send you the book with a dedication and with a postcard of one of Weyer's playbills and you are mentioned in the book